Checking in...

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Well, it seems the blog has nearly evaporated... it's August and this is the first post of the year :)Although I didnt take to Tumblr (the format of which this blog prerelated to somehow) as many others I have been succumbed to Instagram for online presences of the ephemeral visual side of things. Nevertheless I will continue to maintain this blog for various reasons, like an old notebook forgotten in a drawer... which still holds empty pages for scribbling new notes and ideas, and referencing old ones.

Here I post these photos by Sarah Bastin taken in September 2017. They're a reference to the famous Brötzmann family "Last Home" LP cover. As for myself I have been alcohol free for nearly the entire 2018. A massive challenge and personal accomplishment and it's been interesting relearning how to exist in the world this way, and also relearning how to communicate with the increased sensitivities... can't go wrong in any attempt to imrove on that side of things though I believe.

The big news is that SUNN O))) conceptualized, wrote, preproduced a lot of music over the spring (in Los Angeles and at Dave Grohl's 606 studios) and then recorded, mixed eight new tracks with Steve Albini in June (At Electrical Audio in Chicago) over two weeks. We are preparing the mastering, artwork, naratives and such and we are very excited to present this new work to the world. New directions once again...

... and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SUNN O)))'s creation we released our first ever practice tape on LP format this year as well. The SOMA031/sunn206.666 / SUNN O))) "Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998” LP The genesis … http://editionsmego.com/release/SOMA031-sunn206.666

My label imprint IDEOLOGIC ORGAN was honored to release two major archival works of the dhrupad master Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar this year, as well as a beautiful set of sacred flute music recordings from Ragnar Johnson's research trips in Madang region of Papua New Guinea in the 70s. We prepare and plan new titled from the Japanese band Kukangendai, the French artist Golemn Mechanique and a boxed set of Akos Rozmann's "Mass" in the next year. http://editionsmego.com/releases/ideologic-organ/